Category: life
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It’s been seven days since I last wrote. Seven days of work, chores, drama, and mayhem. The last two days particularly so. I need to get back to writing – to emptying my head into the keyboard. Somewhere along the way I stopped doing it, and I kind of miss it. I’m not sure I…
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I’ve commented in the past about falling off the internet bicycle – somehow not finding the time to keep up with anything, or catch up with anybody. I’ve decided that I’ve not so much fallen off the bicycle than mislaid it completely. Perhaps it was actually stolen? I could use that as an excuse. Yes.…
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The clock ticked past midnight three quarters of an hour ago. After living with the default Apple task-list app for the last few weeks, I finally caved this week and bought a copy of “Things” – a rather wonderful task-list app that will run on my phone, tablet and laptop, and help me keep on…
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Another week has whistled past. Again, I’m not entirely sure where it went. I didn’t run. I didn’t read. I did listen to music though. I’m listening to music right now – Carly Simon is singing about “coming around again” – she must have seen me running around in circles and thought “I’ve got a…
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I think I may have unwittingly succeeded in departing the loop entirely. It’s been a week since I last wrote. I fell off the running wagon this week – only managing one run after a succession of long days and late nights. At least twice I thought “I’ll run at lunchtime” – only for lunchtime…
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Where the hell has the last week gone? Seriously. You look away for a few seconds and several day have passed. Of course I wasn’t “doing nothing” during those days, but then if I even began to explain, you might fall asleep where you’re standing. I’ll have to a go, and apologise in advance if…
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It’s “Father’s Day” in the UK today – a tradition that seems to have been adopted from the US at some point in the distant past – quite obviously a commercial tactic to sell stationery and chocolates, because what says “I love you Dad” more than a rectangle of cardboard with your handwriting on it?…
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It’s been a bit of a week. The Windows laptop has been handed on to my eldest daughter, and the Amazon tablet has been handed on to my other half. An iPad arrived yesterday. We had a couple of iPads in the family years ago, so it’s not entirely alien to me. Earlier in the…
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The Mac mini arrived. And the iPhone. The biggest barrier at the moment seems to be my own ability to learn new ways of doing things, or to forget the ways I used to do things. In some ways switching over has been a good exercise – forcing me to “clean house” – sorting out…
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My mobile phone came up for renewal last week. After a few days of abject indecision, I finally pulled the trigger on its replacement this afternoon. An iPhone will arrive through the post tomorrow. After several years using an Android phone as a daily driver, I’m heading back to Apple. This was all triggered by…
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A few days ago my other half mentioned that she had a couple of Macbooks at work that were being retired, and wondered if I might be interested in them. I tentatively said “maybe”, knowing that we have a house full of computers of all shapes and sizes already. There’s a part of me saying…
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After tipping myself out of bed at 7am this morning, I pulled on some running shorts, and headed out of the door to re-start the “Couch to 5K” programme. It’s only been… oh, 20 months since running anywhere at all? Armed with the official NHS Couch to 5K app, and with Steve Cram filling my…
